Beatles, Jimi, Stones, Endless Summer – who’s the link? John Van Hamersveld!
New stuff from CJ Nelson by Steve Cleveland
The Extremely Fast Peopling of the Americas
In Hawai’i, Plantation Tourism Tastes Like Pineapple
Climate change could end mortgages as we know them
Global Warming Will Drown Bangkok, Shanghai, Mumbai
Florida GOP leaders finally utter ‘sea level rise,’ lament ‘lost decade’
Lord Thing (1970, DeWitt Beall)
8 track album
Source: AL ZMAN SAIB | Habibi Funk Records
Vultures wearing GoPros are patrolling Lima’s skies for polluters—and saving the city from itself
Source: From Zero to Hero
Scientists find that the world’s oceans are storing vastly more heat than before.
Source: This is where 90 percent of global warming is going – The Washington Post
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The Beatles’ Revolution 9 brought experimental music to a global audience, but their radio soundworld wouldn’t have been possible without Stockhausen’s ‘music of the whole world’
Source: Crackle goes pop: how Stockhausen seduced the Beatles
When Canada used hunger to clear the West
Sports Illustrated- Feb. 22, 1971
John Lennon and Ringo Starr holiday in Trinidad, January 1966
Lost Los Angeles – Nightlife – YouTube
This Project Traps Plastic Junk Before It Reaches The Ocean And Turns It Into Floating Parks
Eco-Friendly Blackbird Clara Ukulele Boasts a Rich Sound within an Ekoa Composite Body
Coastal winds intensifying with climate change, study says
Falling in love with the world’s rarest records
Disneyland Fashion Shoot, 1961
The earliest photo of Paul McCartney and George Harrison together, ca. 1956-57
From Firewire to NevHouse: Sustainability, Technology and Surfing Serendipities
Facebook Data Center Urged To Ditch Coal Power With Support Of 500,000 People
Der Trabant Twist by Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks
From the days A&Rs would do the occasional string arrangement. The Billboard Hot 100 sounded different. This particular one from 1963 reminded me of the days I did full song chart themed mix tapes of, say, summer 1964, southern Calfifornia local radio charts music. That way I had a nice helping of surf instros, among their contemporaries. I would pop it in the car-radio-tape player, blasting out of 2 sixties Dual speakers in the back of my beetle on the way to St. Peter with my 9ft board on the roof. You never know what it feels like until you try it.